Sou’wester Arts Artist Collaborations
Creative partnerships that honor place, community, and imagination
Each collaboration reflects both the artist’s unique vision and the shared energy of our residency community. From postcards and books to botanical illustrations and design projects, these creations celebrate the intersections of art, story, and the coastal landscape we call home.
Meaghan Lynch – Looking, Observing and Seeing….
Created during her Sou’wester Artist Residency, Brooklyn-based artist Meaghan Lynch developed a series of botanical illustrations inspired by the unique plant communities of the Long Beach Peninsula. Through walks, research, and close observation, she gathered and studied native species. Her drawings present these plants as distinct, living characters, offering a deeper connection to place and a shift in how we see the natural world. In collaboration with Ilwaco Artworks, this collection extends into postcards, ceramics, and decal packs, bringing the spirit of the peninsula into everyday objects.
These items will be available for purchase online, soon…
“I was deeply inspired by my time hiking around the Peninsula. It led me to consider if I could return to my home in urban Brooklyn, NY with my “Peninsula Eyes” to pay as careful attention to moments of native plants in my daily life. Could I carefully catch glimpses of nature, while walking through the City? All these plants have a story to tell us, if we listen.”
Meaghan lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is an interdisciplinary artist/creator/mother of three. Her career spans design, education, and botanical illustration. She is a founding partner in a design studio, Studio Prospect. As a designer, she focuses on creating spaces that connect people to nature. Professionally, she has collaborated on award-winning residential spaces, commercial spaces, and public sites. She has taught design studios at various universities including SVA, the University of Pennsylvania, and Victoria University in New Zealand. Additionally, she maintains an urban native garden in Brooklyn with her children’s school, where she teaches elementary students about the rhythms and rituals of tending to a garden together. She has also taught sustainable technology courses in the design/build context.
meaghanlynch.net
2026
2025: Collaboration with Anis Mojgani:
A Pocket-Sized Companion Book for Artists, Dreamers & Seekers
This limited-edition, guide book—designed by Anis, printed by Scout Books of Portland—is more than just a pocketbook. It’s a landing place for thoughts, sketches, memories, and quiet moments of reflection. Created in support of the Sou’wester Artist Residency Program, all proceeds from this book directly benefit the artists who find inspiration within our walls. This guide book is for more than just artists-in-residence. It’s for travelers, poets, doodlers, foragers, tinkerers, and memory-makers of all kinds—anyone who wants to capture the magic of the evergreen coast in their own way. Whether you’re filling its pages with words, drawings, lists, or simply the echoes of your time here, this little book is an open space for you to occupy. With a cover illustration and words by Anis, this is more than a keepsake—it’s an invitation to explore, reflect, and create, wherever you are.
Anis Mojgani served two terms as Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate and is a two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam. Winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam and a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Anis has done commissions for the Getty Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum. His work has appeared on HBO, National Public Radio, and as part of the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series; and in the pages of the NYTimes, Rattle, Platypus, Winter Tangerine, Forklift Ohio, and Bat City Review. Anis has been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera, AIR Serenbe, The Bloedel Nature Reserve, The Sou’wester, and the Oregon Literary Arts Writers-In-The-Schools program.
2024: Collaboration with Meghan Gambill:
Saint Meatball Postcard
Acrylic on wood
Maybe you’ve met Meatball or even adopted him for a snuggle during a stay. Maybe you haven’t had the chance to make his acquaintance yet. Either way, Meatball is our resident saint of rodents and cuddles and a large part of the Sou’wester charm.